"Cousins for Life": My Gay Dads

Nickelodeon's Cousins for Life is basically Drake and Josh, about two mismatched kids who become related when their parents marry.  Ok, the parents, are canonical brothers, so the mismatched kids are actually cousins, but why quibble over details?  Their two dads even have a ship name, Lark.

When his "wife" is deployed overseas, goofy, fun-loving, irresponsible Clark (Ishmel Sahid) decides that he can't take care of his kids on his own, so he moves in with his uptight, stick-in-the-mud, slow-burn brother Lewis (Ron G), who has no problems raising his kids as a single dad.

The kids, by the way, are Ivy (Scarlet Spencer) and 12-year old Stuart (Dallas Dupree Young), with younger hanger-on Leaf (Micah Abbey).

After the initial "wife" business, the two don't mention hetero-romance again, and behave exactly as romantic partners.  They even break up after an argument, and it's up to Ivy and Stuart to get their squabbling dads to make up.

Ivy and Stuart are the focus characters. with episodes concentrating on money-making schemes and scams (their pig gets a job on a tv commercial) and various woke protests (girls can be superheroes, too).

Back to the two Dads: this isn't the 1980s.  Why bother with the lame attempt at heterosexualizing them?  Why not just make them a couple?

Well, Ron G. is "the world's funniest clean comedian" who tells jokes about colorful characters in his church.

Ishmel Sahid is known for shorts like "Sex Makes It More Important."

They'd have to get different Dads.

Besides, Nickelodeon remains the most conservative (read: homophobic) of the children's television networks, so we'll be stuck with subtext for the foreseeable future.